no connection. no connection, was the physicist, the original physicist on the expedition. except he did upset quite a few people within the crew, and it was decided to take him off the ship. and sir clements markham being who he was decided that he no longer fitted in with the expedition, so he just cut him out. he doesn't exist. he's left the body in the lake. something along those lines, yes. so that in itself is a wonderful piece of history. that is antarctic history. it's the who's who. what else? just turn it round again. so what's that? this is a particularly nice shot of the discovery leaving lyttleton. this is the beginning of the voyage. this is the beginning of the voyage. it's setting off from new zealand. after having been in dry dock and being repaired and off she goes in a trip, really, which is a trip to the unknown. it was like going to the surface of the moon at that time. all those trips were. it was the last great frontier. it was the last great frontier. i find these so exciting because i try to put myself in the mind of people at that time

setting off on these voyages knowing they'd be away for years possibly, knowing no idea about what was going to happen. it's fantastic stuff. i think this is a clear case where objects that superficially have no particular significance are very significant. a cigarette case like that without that inscription in that condition is £20. yeah, that's right. add that component and you're dealing with a vastly superior sum. hundreds. because, as you say, without that there would be no polar expeditions, no discovery, no scott, no nothing. the book is a different issue. it's clearly a good provenance. we're looking at thousands of pounds. because this is such a rare association of images and material ephemera, which tells a very personal story from the person who made it all happen. and we were very very excited to get it, obviously. thank you. you're welcome. i bet these have pride of place in your dining room. they're actually in my mother's dining room on either side of the sideboard.

right. what do you know about them? not very much at all. my grandfather bought them and he was told at the time they came from the duke of hamilton's palace. right. that's a grand start, isn't it? the duke of hamilton's palace. well, it was called hamilton palace. but the contents was sold in 1882. it's a very famous auction. one of the most famous actions of the 19th century. i didn't know that. these candelabra are clearly, to me what's called rococo revival which started in popular taste in about the 1820's, 1830's. but for a big, very wealthy, noble family like the hamiltons, who were in london and buying all the best french things they would be buying french early revival things in the 1810, 1820's. i.e., when he got married, or almost certainly in 1819, when he became the duke. just to explain very quickly how i can date these they look like french 1730's or '40s. but they're a little bit more clumsy,

which takes me to england, possibly, or france in the 1820, 1830 revival period. but the most charming thing, have you noticed the dragon? no, i can't say i have. you haven't had a good look at them, have you? they've just always been there. gathering dust on mum's shelf. there's a lovely-- you can see the tail here, and it works all the way up into the dragon's mouth there. do you know what they're made of? no. honestly, i don't know anything about them. are they gold? i don't think so but i don't know. well, they're gold-plated. they're what we call ormolu, which is actually brass or bronze, which has then had a coat of gold paste put on with mercury then it's fired. it just burns itself onto the brass underneath. they're fantastic things. they're just great. i think you're gonna have to pay at auction a minimum of £2,000 to £3,000. really? and i think if you could ever prove the provenance,

the history of them, i think you should double it. very good. i usually talk about military items, war items, but you've brought along a few items today that are anti-war. i have indeed. tell me something about them, and who they belong to. these refer to my grandmother's brother. his name was bernard douglas taylor. this is him. that's him, yes. was he a friend, was he a quaker? he was a quaker. the whole family had been methodist but turned quaker before the first world war. prior to the war starting, he took part in many anti-war committees and so on. oh, did he? once the war had started he helped out with other conscientious objectors and so on. when the time came for his drafting he appeared before a panel and pleaded his case for not having to join the military. what's this handwritten letter about? that's his declaration to the selection panel.

this is dated january 26, 1917. he's written here, "i am not," underlined "a soldier, and no amount of coercion can ever cause me to become an instrument for the slaughter of my fellow man." so quite clearly he was a very intense man, and definitely not one to go against his morals. whatever else he said to the panel they came to the unanimous agreement that, due to his statement and his eloquence and his intensity, that he should be fully exempted from military service. interesting. now this photograph here puzzles me somewhat, because this is, i guess, him, is it? that's him, yes. why is he wearing a military uniform? what happened was, he decided that the help he was giving out to dependents of "conscies," he could perhaps do more so he decided to go to france

to help out there. was this while the war was in progress? it was still in progress, yes. but what happened was, when he got off the ferry, a gendarme came up asked him his business and when he explained, the gendarme said, "what i suggest to you, sir, "is that you go to the nearest tailor's "have yourself a uniform made "and put it on immediately, "because if the women of france see you in civilian clothes, a young, fit, hale man "they're going to tear you to pieces, because their men have been dying at the front." yes, yes. that's extraordinary isn't it? and you've also brought along an armband. tell me about this. i know nothing about it. i can only presume it's part of the quaker voluntary organization's motif. in fact, i do know what this is. this is the quaker star. i see. and it's the badge of the quaker relief organization. and so, he would've worn the quaker star on his arm. as far as i know he had no other form of insignia on the uniform.

solely this. he would've worn this armband to show who he was to show that he was a quaker. and also, of course, to support the other quakers who were also over there because he wouldn't have been alone. he would not have been alone. but it must have been a most appalling thing actually, to be the subject of people's ridicule because he would have been ridiculed at home in britain. i don't know that ridicule is exactly the word. i would say disliked even to the point of being hated. hated. hated is a strong word. yes, but the feeling in the country against conscientious objectors such as he was very, very strong indeed. and in fact, if you open that, you'll perhaps see what i mean. this envelope? yes. what's this dated, 1916, it looks like, from the postmark. it's a letter to him. you'll see. oh, my. oh, goodness me. it's a white feather.

it's a white feather. as in the four feathers film. it says, "noble sir, if you are too proud or frightened," underlined to fight, wear this." and this has been kept. it's been kept, yes. it was kept by my grandmother just to show the feelings that some human beings have towards others. he obviously was a man of great, deep beliefs. absolutely. but how must he have felt when he received this. how would you feel if you'd received this? i don't know. i think, from what i've read of his background, that he would have accepted it as an example of how human beings can look upon each other and feel sad and sorry perhaps, for the person who wrote it. that's an interesting perspective, isn't it, i suppose. i have to say that i've never seen another white feather letter, ever because i doubt whether anybody kept them. i would've thought... i think most people would've been very anxious to get rid of them completely.

very quickly. exactly. i actually feel quite privileged to be able to see it. it's quite incredible. and i wouldn't mind betting that if this was actually sold-- i'm sure you don't want to do it-- but if this was sold at auction today you'd get a number of people willing to pay probably £500, £600 for it. because it's most unusual. i think this is an indictment on war itself, and also an indictment on the sort of person that would have sent that letter. the whole country felt the same way at that time. of course they did. we were very patriotic. but i find this, in today's world i find this very moving. thank you for showing it to me. thanks very much. this beautiful stars and stripes dress, obviously fancy dress. tell me the story of it. well, it was designed and made by my grandmother for my mother in 1926. mummy was aged 18, but granny was very thrifty,

and she was a superb needle woman. both designed and made clothes. you can see how she's used this red and white and blue cotton sateen fabric cut the red into stripes and put the whole thing together. i think the headdress looks rather like something out of a lyons corner house waitress' outfit. it certainly looks a bit like wonder woman, doesn't it? doesn't it? what's fantastic about this is that when i think when i was sent off to fancy dress parties, i always used to go as a pirate or a nurse 'cause it was easy. but this is something quite more delightful. i wore it to a fancy dress party in 1981. i wore it with silver lame mary quant tights, and i danced the charleston in it and it was such fun. the wonderful thing about this dress is at that period, the mid-1920's women after the first world war, women were partying they were smoking, they were wearing much more makeup. mummy wasn't allowed to smoke. mummy wasn't smoking. and no nail vanish either. no nail varnish either. it's a wonderful example of something

from the 1920's, just before the crash. people were still partying then. it got very much more somber after that. but this is fabulous and beautiful. thank you so much for bringing it. thank you. valuation of these things is so difficult, because, really, it's a very personal thing. it would certainly be of great interest at auction. i could see it making £150, £200. i treasure the fact it's still in the family and i love having it. thank you so much. cats and dogs. yes. don't they look good like that in this group? i've never seen them grouped like that but i think they do look good. they look absolutely spanking, don't they? that's good, despite the little holes. yes, well, yes the little holes down in this one especially. have you got cats yourself? one cat. maybe they played with it or something. maybe. by frank paton here. you see his signature. it's done in 1893. so they belong to...?

they belong to my uncle's sister, and they apparently were a debt to my cousin's grandfather, but there's no one left to tell the tale. i must say, i think they're terrifically good, aren't they? i think so. i think i actually prefer the dogs, although they're perhaps not the more commercial subjects. but i like the dogs because the dogs, i think, might be portraits of actual dogs. a lot of other people have said, just feeling the skin, almost. you can feel the skin and the feet. very lifelike. quite lifelike. actually, almost photographic. and this dog particularly. he looks like an aged retainer i think. yes. he looks like a disgraced politician. and he's probably at the end of his career as a shooting dog. he's a spaniel isn't he? and then these terriers. obviously, the one that's lying down, he looks like a real old fighter. rather a grizzled, scarred nose, hasn't he? these cats are rather more soppy, aren't they,

you might say. but they certainly are cute cats. they are cute. you might even have the same three kittens. they've escaped from mum and they've come to torment this canary. yes. the canary. they can't get at it 'cause the cage is well-closed. so i take heart in that. it's not too much of a cruel subtext. but frank paton was quite an interesting fella really because he owed all his fame to printmaking. and there was an awful lot of money in prints in victorian britain because there were so many new houses and they all needed decorating not too expensively. people who couldn't afford the originals would have the print. and it would make him very famous. a bit like if you're a novelist having a film made of your book. yes. like that. which do you think would be the most valuable of the four? um, i thought this one or this one. the dog pictures? yeah. i'm not so sure. i think that cats reach a wider audience. right. yes. internationally. and he is actually internationally known.

so starting perhaps with the least popular which might be the aged retainer, the spaniel here i'd say he's probably worth about £5,000 or £6,000. right. and then going up to the terrier here, i think it's a really interesting picture. the dogs have real character... they do. and a collector of terriers is probably going to pay between £6,000 and £8,000 for him. and then, i suppose torturing the canary would be next. and that would be something in the region of £8,000 to £10,000. really? oh, yes. and then, by the time you reach the really cute one with the kittens and mum probably worth about £10,000 to £12,000. so all in all, nearly £40,000 for these pictures. right. thank you very much. not at all. our jewelry expert john benjamin,

was seen coming off the plane last night at dundee airport, staggering under the weight of something very, very heavy in his suitcase. i found out today what it is because we asked him if, heaven forfend his house should go up in flames what two objects would he rush out with clutching one in each hand and john you brought along... this, i know is very heavy. neither of the objects you brought are jewelry, which intrigues me. no, you're quite right. let's start with this one. why have you brought this along? all right, well, this is a bowl that is actually called the greedy squirrel. the story behind this bowl was this: when i was 17, i left school. no qualifications to speak of whatsoever. i was very lucky to get a job working in a jewelry shop located in bloomsbury called cameo corner. cameo corner was started by this man here. i'll show you a picture of him. there we are. what's his name? moshe oved, a mystic a sculptor, a jeweler. he started the shop up with nothing.

but by the time he died, some of the customers of the shop were extraordinarily important people including queen mary who had her own armchair in the shop that no one else was allowed to sit in. for the four years that i worked at cameo corner this squirrel sat on the counter in the corner, right next to where i worked. when i left cameo corner that, of course, i left. about, i don't know, three or four years ago, the thing appeared at auction and i was told about it, and i thought, i have to have the squirrel. that squirrel had been winking at me for four years. so i bought it. it weighs a ton, doesn't it? oh, yes, it does weigh a ton. i've got to say, john, if you don't mind me saying so it's not the most attractive thing i've ever seen. you don't like it, fiona? i'm not wild about it. obviously, it means a lot to you. it means a great deal to me because it represents my young life in the jewelry industry so there we are. and what about this object here?

well, that is a silver sugar sifter. oh, i don't know 12, 15 years ago telephone call from one of our branches. could i go down to visit a local client who, it turned out had a large box of jewelry? went to visit this client. sure enough, the jewelry was astonishing. and it turned up that the collection was owned by her father. he had made it all. he was called henry george murphy. henry murphy was a goldsmith and silversmith who owned a shop in marylebone called the falkland studio. in 1928, up to his death in 1939, he churned out the most amazing jewelry and silverware. well, how did i come by this? i researched the man's life. we photographed all his jewelry. the client said that up in the loft they had the entire archive of the falkland studio. it was a time bubble upstairs. what a find. and what happened was that we recognized--

i say "we," because i collaborated with one of our own colleagues on the antiques roadshow, paul atterbury. we wrote a book about murphy. and they gave me the silver sugar casket. they gave it to you? yes, they gave it to me. and what's it worth, do you know? do you know something, fiona? i don't care what it's worth. i have something that means a great deal to me, because that is a thread in my life. and for me, that is a very personal piece. john, thank you. thank you, fiona. this is the kind of thing i could only have dreamt would have arrived at my table today. here we have perhaps, how can i say? one of the legends of golfing history. and this is old tom morris. can you tell me where this came from? it was in my father's house after his death, and when we cleared the house out, we found it. so it wasn't hanging on the wall?

no. okay. let's talk about old tom morris because essentially, what we have here, a superb photographic image of old tom morris, and he's on the course at st. andrew's. he's in a bunker which actually to be honest with you, is probably not that usual for old tom morris because old tom morris was an exceptional golfer. he was regarded as absolutely invincible on the course. he actually won the open at prestwick four times, starting in 1861 i believe. and here he is at st. andrew's. there's a slightly more poignant history to old tom, as well, because he had a son young tom morris and young tom morris won the open four times as well. but the sad thing is that he died at the age of 24. so we have two generations of a family, both exceptional golfers both exceptional scottish golfers and old tom here who lived to about 1904, 1905. sadly his son died around about 1875. and it's a very poignant story.

but added to that, we have a man here who, to collectors is literally the god of the golfing world. and what is more we have a signed photograph. yes. and i wonder had you ever considered a value on this photograph? no idea. well, this picture is worth £2,000 to £3,000. i've been offered 1,000 for it. you haven't been offered enough because it's an absolute classic of its type, and to be honest with you, to come to scotland and find it in scotland has kind of made my day. i thought it would. thank you. it's great. thank you ever so much for bringing it along. this bowl, i love it. good. i really, really love it. it's fantastic. it's a visual feast of the best pottery folk art you can get, really. it's a gorgeous thing. everything's going on. yes, it is. it's lovely that it's dated. 1862. what's that? i don't know but i love the fact that the top

hat was coming off. it's extraordinary. a man in a top hat on a bucking bronco. it's an assortment of random images. we've got this wonderful steam train over here. we've got two ships. it's a fantastic slipware bowl. technically, about slipware it's pottery which is then coated with a very very thin layer of another colored slip, which is basically liquid clay, which is then carved into. this sgraffito effect. the history of slipware goes right back into medieval times. this would be a 19th-century piece. it become popular throughout the u.k. north devon is very, very famous for slipware. but we're up in dundee. yeah. where did you get this from? this i found in my mother's attic when i moved my mother and father to a smaller home this year. and margaret morren was my great-great aunt fantastic.

so this has gone down from person to person to person. yeah. and lived in the attic. it was in the attic. i think i shall be displaying it now. would margaret morren have made it have designed it? it's very unlikely. it's more likely it was made perhaps as a present for her birth. oh, for her birth. your family records may be able to tell you something about that. i need to look into it. you need a genealogist. i do, i do. i think it's a gorgeous thing. good. thank you. i suppose we've got to think about what it might be worth. i suppose at auction £2,000. is it as much as that? goodness. i had no idea. no idea at all. i just thought it was a family piece. it's lovely. really, really nice. i'm sure i shan't be selling it. i covet it. good. i'll take it to my home. you can come and look at it. thank you. thank you very much. the first thing i'd love to ask you is what did you have for breakfast? was it toast and marmalade?

it was, yes. it was? did you turf the bread out of the bread bin first before you put the clock in? did you really? fantastic. i love that. we're not here to look at the bread bin. we're here to look at this extraordinary machine inside. do you mind if i take it out? no, not at all. there we go. it's terrific fun. love it to bits. i saw it poking out of the top of the bread bin i thought to myself, please let that be what i think it is. and it's exactly what i think it is which is great. so it's called a skeleton clock. the reason it's called a skeleton clock is because the movement plates have been pierced out so you can see straight through them and you can examine the wheelwork in between the two plates whereas normally with a clock you'd have brass plates, and you couldn't see any of the wheelwork. so we call this a skeleton clock. so how is it that such an extraordinary machine arrives here in dundee? it came into our family in the second world war. my grandfather was a farmer and a fisher.

a local businessman approached him at christmastime. he wanted some geese that my grandfather had. some geese? some geese to give to his workers at christmastime. but he couldn't afford to pay my grandfather for the geese, so he said "i'll give you a clock." on the condition he could come and look at it every now and again on the mantelpiece. and we've had it ever since in the family. what a fantastic story. did your father have an interest in clocks, in horology? no, not that i know of. but he had a good eye obviously. he was a canny scottish farmer. he was, yes. and what sort of date was that? second war? i think it was 1941 that it came into our possession. was it? 1941. i'll tell you a little bit about the history of it. made around 1830 that sort of period. on the front we've got a maker's name of r. hess liverpool. it's my belief that mr. r. hess never made this clock. i suspect he was a jeweler and it was his shop clock or shop timepiece, and it would've been a wonderful looker

and it would've attracted people into the shop, and they would've set their watches by the time displayed on the clock. a lot of jewelry shops had a shop's regulator or a shop's mantle clock. sometimes, they showed it in the window. but very often, they wanted to draw people into the jewelry shop so they had a shop's clock sitting on the table or a longcase clock. people would come and regulate their pocket watches by it every day or every week. they were very useful at bringing people in. but what is particularly fun about this clock is the balance wheel that oscillates backwards and forwards just there that has this lovely snake here, which holds the spring which keeps the tension for the balance wheel to oscillate backwards and forwards. the faster the balance wheel oscillates the faster the second hand goes around. and you can make the balance wheel go faster and slower by adjusting the balance spring this spring that's coiled down that the snake is holding. but what is even more wonderful about this is the way that the two plates, the movement have been pierced out in this lovely geometric design. and when you turn the clock around

it becomes even more apparent... because it's pierced out at the back. but it's the layer design that particularly appeals, as well. it's just beautifully laid out. the one last thing that's really good quality is when you look at the quality of the wheelwork you will notice-- i don't know whether you've seen it-- but each wheel has six spokes to each wheel. the average clock has four spokes to each wheel. a good quality clock has five spokes. but a really good quality clock has six spokes. it's a sign of exceptional quality. that's excellent. now, the last question i have to ask you-- did it ever have a glass dome? not as far as i know. we've actually had a dome made for it. you have? yeah. you just didn't bring it with you. didn't bring it with me. you didn't have the original base with it? no. that's a shame because the original base and the original dome is important to have. it's just a lovely thing to be able to have with it.

that's life. they break. my wife will kill me for saying this, but she was dusting some bits and pieces on the shelf and broke my skeleton clock dome the other day. she rang me in tears. i was slightly in tears, as well. they're incredibly difficult to replace. okay, well much collected. this is a skeleton clock collector's dream. i love it. it's a fantastic clock. so it has a market value. from a flock of geese. i wonder how many it was. and they would've gone by christmas. whereas, here this clock is now. still got it. open market value for this clock take a little bit off for the fact it's missing its base and its dome, right. but certainly, a collector today would pay between £8,000 and £12,000 for it. that's good news. thank you very much for bringing it in. thank you. it's a terrific clock. thank you.

this is probably my favorite item of the day. it dates from 1602 and it's a poorly pig. doesn't look much like a pig i can hear you say. but up here in scotland, a poorly pig is what they call a money box, and it used to be used in the council to fine town councilors if they couldn't be bothered to turn up for a meeting. so it must've had a few bob in it. could probably do with something like this in the house of commons, if you ask me. now, it's going to the local mcmanus art gallery and museum here. and our time here is almost up. we've had an interesting and eclectic mix of items, i think it's fair to say. so from the roadshow in dundee, bye-bye.

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is the most determined people engaging with the enemy. i would deeply regret the day when we find ourselves lowry standards -- lowering standards in order to be nice and assets this. >> america is opening the way for women to serve in combat. the defensethe ministry of defense has no changes planned. >> for more on the pentagon's announcement, i spoke a short time ago to a former army sergeant who served in deployment in iraq. thank you very much for coming in. let me pick up on what the lieutenant general was saying. he says it is not sexist but it would be lowering standards to put women on the front line. >> the military is not lowering standards.

women have been serving in combat for a decade now. and one of the other issues that the military struggle is with -- struggles with is that only 25% of people qualify for military service. unfortunately, 75% are to physically unfit, not educated enough, or have criminal backgrounds. if we want to get the best in military service, we need to make sure that women are part of the population. >> you have to open the door for everybody. they would have to meet physical fitness standards. they're not actually lowering standards. few served in iraq. >> i did. >> you were shot at. >> we took small arms fire and direct fire. that is true. >> you were in a combat position? >> that's right, i went on patrol with the infantry. the only thing that mattered was

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netherlands have intelligence of a specific and imminent threat against westerners in the city a week after foreign hostages were seized and killed in algeria and four months after the u.s. ambassador was killed in benghazi. no one is taking any chances. our security correspondent reports. >> and other terrorist threat in north africa. the foreign office told all britons in benghazi to leave immediately because of a specific and imminent danger. >> this is a turbulent part of north africa and the whole of the region, north africa is an area where various militant groups organize. want to prevent that threat but we have got to put the safety of british citizens first. >> libyan officials say the warning to them by surprise. >> this announcement hints at

something that is not exist on the ground. this is not justified enough in our opinion. >> only a few months ago, a large group of well-armed men attacked the u.s. consulate in benghazi, killing the american ambassador and three others. over the last few months, the security situation has deteriorated after the attacks in benghazi last september. the start of this year saw molly coming close to control by islamists. an attack was launched on a remote gas facility in algeria. in a sign of just how many groups are active, he has not thought to be behind this latest threat. it is less than two years.

with the guns of readily available and the state week the city has become a dangerous place. >> i have not returned to the country because i have received a specific threat in response to an investigation i was doing. i fear if i go back, that threat will be carried out and i want to discover the consequences. >> a city that once welcomed the west is now too dangerous for its citizens put to the question is how far that danger spreads across the region. >> if the french government thought that the military operation would be easy, they were wrong. the very army that the french are trying to help stands accused of summarily executing some 30 militant fighters. this brings into question the support other countries are prepared to give to the mission. >> a familiar images, but the

first from this war. a french air strike against vehicles in northern mali. the french mission is proving successful so far but it is what is going on behind the front lines that is triggering alarm. the government soldiers have been accused today of going on a rampage against civilians. we found this body on the front lines, an islamist fighter, one of dozens of locals allegedly killed by their own army. >> there is evidence of killing, rape against civilians. the fear is that as the french clear the way, the army which is thirsty for revenge will commit crimes against other people because of the color of their skin and they have been allied to the enemies. >> rare footage of the rebels

that seized timbuktu. many are lighter skinned tribesmen. there are fears of an ethnic bloodbath if and when the ancient city is recaptured. an army hospital this has been a key meeting year for the soldiers defeated by the islamist militants. they all terrorists, the sergeant tells me. now, we will win. it is that a victory depends on this outside military help. the british foreign office expressed deep concern about the allegation against their army. british troops are on their way here very soon to help train the military and improve their discipline and prevent abuses but it is all in the late. advance on the ground or moving very fast here. there are concerns that the mission to liberate northern

mali could get very ugly. the army has promised to investigate any human rights abuses but its credibility is, shall we say, in doubt. after all it staged a coup d'etat last year. the stakes are too high not to come on. islamist fighters are threatening algeria libya, and on. it will not be quick or pretty. >> not pretty in deed. let's look at other news. john kerry has appeared before the senate foreign relations committee to seek confirmation as the next american secretary of state. he said he would do everything in his power to build on hillary clinton's record and president obama's addition. he's expected to be confirmed. the government of yemen says a senior leader of the local branch of al qaeda has died of wounds received last a member. it has not been confirmed by his

group and previous reports of his death have proved to be false. this time, however both the yemen state news agency and a diplomat at the embassy in washington have announced the news. the u.n. has launched an investigation into civilian deaths from from strikes in a number of countries including somalia pakistan, afghanistan and yemen. the inquiry will look at 25 separate from strikes including a u.s. attack in pakistan in 2011 where up to 40 civilians are reported to have been killed. in syria today, war planes continued to bomb rubble-held areas near the capital as president assad was shown on television and attending a mosque service to mark the birthday of the profiphet. every day, thousands of refugees to flee the violence. the strain on those trying to shelter them is enormous. we have been to a camp in

jordan. >> small figures and a vast crisis. every night now, they come in their thousands. most are women and children, terrorized by war. for the children, how frightening is it? >> they keep screaming. they cannot sleep. they cry all the time. >> in the distance and in the country behind them, smoke rises from an explosion. on this side of the border, they meet soldiers to try to help, not kill. >> at each border crossing, or forces are there to receive them. we take them somewhere south, to restore their sense of security. this is the place of safety become a camp where it nearly 70,000 syrian refugees are now being cared for by the jordanian

government and the u.n. all day, people are continuing to rise. we're told there are tens of thousands more waiting on the other side of the border. all of this is putting a huge strain on the resources of the cap. >> we have about 60,000 who are ready to cross into jordan. we know that we have done as well as we can given the resources we have which is that we have no resources anymore. we need money now desperately to expand this capmp. >> so far the u.n. has raced just 3% of what they needed to care for the refugees. help of all kinds is needed. this woman cares for her severely disabled that you. kosh disabled-- disabled nephew.

among many of the refugees, there is a sense that the world beyond the cap has abandoned them. -- beyond the camp has abandoned them. >> a child or a human being, no value at all. where is the humanity? >> these are images of one day and a life of this camp. newcomers a struggle with flinty ground. the young learn quickly the burdens of an adult world in turmoil. they mourn a 3-year-old who died a few days after arriving here. it was a tragedy that might have easily happened at home in syria but to bury their child in exile deepens the grief.

at twilight, the people keep coming by any means they can. we watched add these families boarded boats on the syrian side. with their numbers growing and scant international aid promised, for how much longer can jordan offers sanctuary? >> a terrible situation. the u.n. has only 3% of the money they need to help those refugees. you are watching "bbc world is america," still to come off the power of the polaroid. decades after it started capturing the hour images, its influence spread much further than you know. north korea possible threat to target the u.s. as part of what it calls a centuries old struggle according to the white house is a need this provocation. that means that they are alarming and we don't know what

to do about them. we have more from the south korean capital seoul. >> six weeks after it launched a long-range rocket and a day after receiving sanctions, north korea has raised the stakes again with the news that it would carry out a third test. >> state television made its announcement saying that north korea was locked in an all out war of confrontation with his people's arch enemy the united states and that its satellite and rocket launches and nuclear tests were all carried out with the u.s. in mind. that is given the u.s., number 3 on a voice something to talk about. he has just arrived in the region. -- that has given the u.s., north korea envoy something to talk about. another nuclear test would be

highly provocative, he said. >> we hope they don't. it would be highly provocative. it would set back the cause of trying to find a solution to these long-standing problems that have prevented the peninsula from becoming reunited. >> of north korea has proved resistant to sanctions and not even its ally, china, has been able to stop their young leader, kim jong and from showcasing their military might. they called the test high-level, a sign that they're moving ahead with a new iranian-based nuclear program which they revealed to the outside world in 2010. >> today, it is iphones,

yesterday it was the polaroid that gave us an instant image. it took a lot of shaking and blowing. in a new book, the focus is on polaroid's founder, edward land. he left a lasting impression. even steve jobs drew inspiration from his invention. >> just a touch a button and it has to the picture. >> it was miraculous. you watched the picture come out in front of you while it process itself. it is still very strange. when i should these things, they think it is the world's best party trick. it got into people's heads in an extraordinary way. i'm the author of "the story of polaroid."

edward land is the founder of polaroid and the founder of this photography. he is a drop out of harvard. he had attention which turned out to have lots of application. bombsight's, gunsights, and after 50 years they moved into instant photography. this blossomed in the 50's and sixties and exploded in popularity in the 1970's. people were shooting a billion polaroid pictures a year. >> we are still a long way of the realization of a concept of a camera that would be like a telephone. something that you could use all the long. >> he was a larger-than-life character. he had happened -- he had a habit of turning the shareholders' meeting into a

show. he would demonstrate that by the end of this afternoon, this thing that you had never heard before was something that you had to get yourself. it seems like we're talking about steve jobs. he was watching all this back in the 70's when apple is a tiny company. jobs said that he built apple on the polaroid model. >> polaroid, there is nothing like a cake of seeing or pictures developed before your eyes. >> the product of 1972 was really the product that brought one step photography into full flower. that is the one that we think about as the polaroid picture. it was the ubiquitous piece of our culture. celebrities use it, artists and used it. andy warhol carried a polaroid camera everywhere he went for

years and years and years. he had one of the cheapest that polaroid ever made. it had a huge reach into american life. everyone who grew up in the 70's has a few pictures of dad or mom that they took. the mystique of polaroid does resonate with people. you take a picture of somebody and then you gave it to them and you have that moment of chatting while the picture developed. a digital photographs can be replicated a thousand times in a minute. a polaroid picture is special because it is like a painting. it is an addition of one. >> the absolutely fabulous polaroid. also, the life of the polaroid founder, edward land. that brings the broadcast to a close.

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